Transcript Lesson 9 Essentials Video: Media

JENNA: One of the ways that we can go across genre with modes and film and essays and screenwriting and podcasts or blogs or anything like that is to find the commonalities between them. And I think one of the biggest commonalities is going to be your focus of your audience. That's going to really determine how you approach things.

GRETCHEN: Before social media, you couldn't really be your own publisher or your own editor. But with Facebook and Twitter coming out, and blogs even, people are posting amazing work that would have never really reached a broader audience.

NIA: I think to compare the two, classic writing, I mean, it's moving in itself. You read it. I personally, because I am very dramatic and because I do have a voice like maybe I'm spitting a poem or something, I like everything 3D. If that makes sense. I just applied to film school, and I really wish that I could have sat down with all the people who read my application. And read them my admissions letter.

VINH-THUY: And I wanted to have music on there so to help students who were, first of all, most of the people in class were half asleep. So I wanted to wake them up a little bit. And also could have the music to guide them towards the point I want to make. But I didn't want the music to be overpowering. So the music were mainly instrumental. And they were softened so that there was something going on in the background. Like white noise. But I still wanted them to focus upon the actual, the visual cues, and the textual cues.

THOMAS: You can definitely convey a message with a photograph just like you could with a short story. And there is organization in photography just like there is in writing. You want to have everything framed up properly so the viewer knows what to look at. Or maybe you don't want them to see something first. You do the same thing in writing by organizing your paper, your argument in that manner.

DAN: I started with the paper, and I thought that's the best way to get my words out. Didn't work. So I turned that paper to a script. Turned that script into an audio production. And then eventually, after much difficulty, turned that audio production into a full video.